About the Office
The Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) is responsible for leadership of nutrition research at NIDDK and collaboratively across NIH institutes. The office participates in strategic planning, portfolio analysis, budget and resource allocation, and assessment of research needs and opportunities that fall within the mission of NIDDK and the NIH. Strategic planning includes developing new NIH research initiatives in nutrition research. ONR acts on behalf of NIH as an interagency point of contact for nutrition research at NIH.
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ONR Staff and Liaisons
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Nutrition Research Information
Overview of NIH research
NIH Nutrition Research Funding, FY 2016 (estimated)
Biennial NIH Nutrition Research Reports
Current Nutrition Funding Opportunities
NIDDK Research Programs
Nutrition-related research programs
Nutrition Research Committees and Working Groups
- NIH Nutrition Research Task Force (NRTF) – The NRTF includes broad representation from Directors and nutrition research staff at the NIH institutes and centers (ICs). It was established to coordinate and accelerate progress in nutrition research across the NIH ICs and to guide the development and implementation of the first NIH-wide strategic plan for nutrition research for the next 10 years.
The NIH Nutrition Research Strategic Plan will be coming in 2018. Stay tuned for opportunities to provide input.
- Nutrition Research Coordinating Committee (NRCC) – The NRCC was established by the NIH Office of the Director in 1975. The NRCC aims, at a more grassroots level, to coordinate research within NIH and between other government agencies engaged in nutrition research. To accomplish this, the NRCC meets every other month as an intra-NIH IC committee, and on alternate months as an interagency committee. While some NRCC members are appointed by their IC directors, in contrast to ICHNR, NRCC membership is open to any government agency staff interested in carrying out any trans-NIH or trans-agency nutrition research efforts
- Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research (ICHNR) – The ICHNR is charged with improving the planning, coordination, and communication among federal agencies engaged in nutrition research and aims to increase the overall effectiveness and productivity of federally supported or conducted human nutrition research. In comparison with the NRCC, the ICHNR is more formal and higher level, in that it only includes appointed members who are authorized to represent their respective agencies from the departments of Agriculture (USDA), Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense (DoD) and Commerce; the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Agency for International Development (USAID), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
In March 2016, the ICHNR released the National Nutrition Research Roadmap: 2016-2021: Advancing Nutrition Research to Improve and Sustain Health, which identifies research priorities for human nutrition and describes the role of the ICHNR departments and agencies in addressing those priorities over the next five to ten years.
The Director of ONR is NIH’s representative to the ICHNR and is the co-chair of its Dietary Reference Intake Subcommittee.
Meetings and Events
No ONR-sponsored nutrition-related events are scheduled at this time.